Motor systems: reaching out and grasping the molecular tools.

Curr Biol

Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address:

Published: March 2014

Two recent studies provide important insights into the organization of premotor circuitries, showing that control of highly-specific skilled forelimb movements, such as reaching and grasping, requires activation of specific subpopulations of neurons in the brainstem and spinal cord.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.02.048DOI Listing

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